"If your hair has never given you any trouble, if you've never had huge fights with your mother about it, then you might not have a story to tell. But I think most people do."

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Elizabeth Benedict

#Mother Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.”
“I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.”

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“It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.”
“Poverty is part of the natural condition and that is bad enough. But my task is to prevent the aggravation of this condition.”
“It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.”
“And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.”

Source : Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.270, Soft Skull Press
“Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.”
“But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.”

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